{ "_meta": { "project": "Latin Prayer", "projectUrl": "https://latinprayer.org", "apiDocs": "https://latinprayer.org/llms.txt", "content": "Thérèse of Lisieux — feast October 1.", "saint": { "slug": "therese-of-lisieux", "name": "Thérèse of Lisieux", "latinName": "Theresia a Iesu Infante", "feastMonth": 10, "feastDay": 1, "feastLabel": "October 1", "epochLabel": "1873–1897, France", "summary": "Doctor of the Church. Carmelite nun whose 'little way' of trust and small acts has shaped modern Catholic spirituality.", "imageUrl": null, "imageCredit": null, "sourceUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux", "commonsClass": "virgins", "url": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/therese-of-lisieux/", "jsonUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/therese-of-lisieux.json" } }, "slug": "therese-of-lisieux", "name": "Thérèse of Lisieux", "latinName": "Theresia a Iesu Infante", "feastMonth": 10, "feastDay": 1, "feastLabel": "October 1", "epochLabel": "1873–1897, France", "summary": "Doctor of the Church. Carmelite nun whose 'little way' of trust and small acts has shaped modern Catholic spirituality.", "imageUrl": null, "imageCredit": null, "sourceUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux", "commonsClass": "virgins", "url": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/therese-of-lisieux/", "jsonUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/therese-of-lisieux.json", "bodyMarkdown": "Born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin in Alençon, France, the\nyoungest of nine children in a family that has itself been\ncanonized in part (her parents Louis and Zélie Martin are also\nsaints). After her mother's early death she was raised by her\nelder sisters and her father, all eventually entering religious\nlife themselves.\n\nThérèse entered the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux at fifteen,\nafter a personal appeal to Pope Leo XIII during a pilgrimage to\nRome. She lived only nine years in religious life, dying of\ntuberculosis at twenty-four. Her superior had ordered her, on\nobedience, to write down her recollections; the manuscripts\nbecame *Histoire d'une âme*, published a year after her death.\n\nThe book made her one of the most-read Catholic authors of the\ntwentieth century. Her \"little way\" — the conviction that\nholiness is not the work of grand gestures but of small acts of\nlove offered with great love — has shaped popular Catholic\npiety more than any other single text since the *Imitation of\nChrist*. She was named Doctor of the Church in 1997.", "bodyHtml": "

Born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin in Alençon, France, the\nyoungest of nine children in a family that has itself been\ncanonized in part (her parents Louis and Zélie Martin are also\nsaints). After her mother’s early death she was raised by her\nelder sisters and her father, all eventually entering religious\nlife themselves.

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Thérèse entered the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux at fifteen,\nafter a personal appeal to Pope Leo XIII during a pilgrimage to\nRome. She lived only nine years in religious life, dying of\ntuberculosis at twenty-four. Her superior had ordered her, on\nobedience, to write down her recollections; the manuscripts\nbecame Histoire d’une âme, published a year after her death.

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The book made her one of the most-read Catholic authors of the\ntwentieth century. Her “little way” — the conviction that\nholiness is not the work of grand gestures but of small acts of\nlove offered with great love — has shaped popular Catholic\npiety more than any other single text since the Imitation of\nChrist. She was named Doctor of the Church in 1997.

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